OBITUARY
EX-PKESIDENT LOUBET
PARIS, 21st December.
The death is announced of the exPresident of France, M. Emile Loubet, at the age of 91.
Emile Francois Loubet, the son of a peasant proprietor, was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1876, was Minister of Public Works in 18S5 in the Tirard Cabinet, and in 1892 formed a Cabinet at the request of President Carnot. In 1899 he was chosen President of the Republic in succession to Felix Faure by 483 votes as against 279 recorded by Meline, his only serious competitor. He was marked out for fierce opposition and bitter insult as the representative of that section of the Republican party which sought the revision of - the Dreyfus case. It was Loubet, acting on the advice of the then Minister of War, who remitted the ten years' imprisonment to which Dreyfus was condemned. Loubet's presidency saw an acute stage- of tho clerical question; the i'.onch Ambassador was recalled from tho Vatican in April, 1905, and in July the separation of Church and State was voted in the Chamber of Deputies. Loubet 's presidency came to an end in 1906, when he retired into private life.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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195OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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